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Taps Historian and Professional BuglerSun, 05 Aug 2018 19:04:19 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8By: D Marshallhttp://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-3/#comment-482999
Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:29:22 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-482999My son is in marching and concert band as well as Orchestra. He plays most brass instruments to include bugle. he wants to know the significance of the cord or braid found on many of the bugles. He is also in Boy Scouts and AFROTC and wants an appropriate cord to put on his bugle. Thank you
]]>By: A Moment of Reflection: The Origin of "Taps"http://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-3/#comment-482541
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 05:57:14 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-482541[…] […]
]]>By: Tapsbuglerhttp://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-3/#comment-377537
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:01:50 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-377537Try thishttps://archive.org/details/CivilWarBugleCalls
]]>By: Meghttp://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-3/#comment-377518
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 21:14:40 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-377518Jari–hopefully we did Taps justice in Aftermath of Battle. I certainly tried!! I have had a difficult time finding a recording of Extinguish Lights. Is there other than the young lady who plays bugle on the YouTube offering, if that is even it? Thanks, Meg
]]>By: Ropedrumhttp://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-2/#comment-242017
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:22:23 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-242017For a historically accurate and fitting arrangement for performance see, “Extinguish Lights” (or Taps) on page 38 of The Bugler’s Call Book under the heading: Cavalry Calls, contained in the back of Elias Howe’s United States Regulation Drum and Fife Instructor published in 1861.

Most assuredly “Taps” was not a Confederate music composition.

]]>By: Tapsbuglerhttp://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-2/#comment-182465
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:41:29 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-182465No one said it did….
]]>By: John Skinnerhttp://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-2/#comment-180070
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:08:40 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-180070I write in relation to The Last Post, a bugle tune played by the British and Commonwealth military forces since about the 1500s when the British were fighting in Europe, mainly Holland, Belgium and France. The Officer of the Guard would take the Guard from the camp through the nearby town where soldiers were on leave.
He would take the Guard to various places within the town where soldiers may be, ie, theatres, pubs, wine shanties or brothels.
The Officer of the Guard would advise soldiers it was time to return to their barracks or billets. Each of the stops were known as “posts” and at the last “post” the bugle would sound the tune which became The Last Post.
Any soldiers caught outside the barracks or his billet after Last Post would be arrested by the Guard and locked up for the night.
That is the historically correct version of the Last Post.
It has nothing to do with Taps, the American Civil War or 1862.
]]>By: Tapsbuglerhttp://tapsbugler.com/the-taps-myth/comment-page-2/#comment-70577
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:12:58 +0000http://www.dev.tapsbugler.com/?p=23#comment-70577Thank you Sir!
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